Splitting An Avi??

[carolkin]

I have searched through this forum and have come up empty handed. My question is....is there a simple way to splilt an avi into 2 files? I know that I can convert the file to a mov file in quicktime and then encode it back to an avi or mpeg. I know tooast does the same thing, but is there any way to do it without encoding it again. I know that there is supposed to ba a way in ffmegx but it all looks so complicated. I hope one of you experts out there can help me out with some ideas. Thank you for any help.

[pixeljammedia]

Assuming that you have the proper codec and it opens in Quicktime, simply move the little "in/out" selection triangles at the bottom of the avi timeline. Set the left triangle at the point you want the split and the right triangle at the end of the movie. Select Cut (Command-X) and Open a new player window. Paste and do a Save. Make sure "self-contained" is selected and it will save the partial avi without re-encoding. close the window and save the first window with the first part of the avi like the last one.

[carolkin]

Thanks a million for the info. It really helped me out.

[cnelson87]

QT saves an edited avi as a mov. any way to edit an avi and keep it avi?

[vinyl.dj]

hmm there is a much simpler way to split your avi's as avi's (DivX or any other avi format) and quickly. Download D-Vision.

http://www.objectifmac.com/english/downloads.php

D-Vision v3.04 for 10.3 or above
D-Vision v2.1 (not v2.2.1) for 10.2

No hassle install cocoa app. Fire it up go to 'Tools' tab and your done.

You can split any avi to any size and you can even re-join.

plus d-vision can fix avi headers and oh yes its a decent Xvid/DivX ripper too.

[rorschach]

I've made a great discovery: If you take D-Vision's Tools section and "Rebuild the Index" of a problem AVI file, as I was having, in an attempt to encode/convert to DVD over at PC's TMPGEnc, it will fix that file for you. I was having "index scan line" problem and not knowing how the files are processed on PC, I was stumped what to do. But "Rebuilding the index" did the trick and I now can process file just fine! Great!